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The discovery of a rock art site in 2008 by an amateur archaeologist spurred a wave of public interest in archaeology in Maragatería, Spain. As new discoveries took place, alternative archaeological discourses thrived facing the inaction of institutional and academic archaeologists. A long-term study of Maragatería carried out by the author serves to explore the construction of archaeological epistemic authority in a context where various social actors compete for dominance. Gieryn's notion of 'boundary-work' serves to analyse the different strategies employed by academic and institutional archaeologists, amateurs and pseudoarchaeologists to build epistemic authority. This article draws on Latour's affirmation that the legitimisation of scientific objectivity should rely on 'trust' rather than on 'certainty'. Ethnographic research showed that the more archaeologists attempted to legitimise their authority by reclaiming certainty, the more pseudoarchaeology proliferated. In contrast, the work of amateurs restrained the growth of pseudoarchaeology by creating networks of trust.

This article carries out a long-term exploration of the changing forms of organizing commemorative space in postcolonial Cuba. From a non-representational and processual approach, it argues that there is a close connection between different ideologies, and the social and material organization of commemoration. Because commemorative spaces are socially constituted and embedded in power relations, this study addresses the shifting forms of connecting the subjective and objective sides of memory, that is, how commemoration organizes the relation between people and the materiality of commemorative artefacts. During both the capitalist-republican and communist-revolutionary periods, commemorative spaces were constructed and reworked to renew political hegemony under different premises. These transformations are examined through three conceptual metaphors—text, arena and performance—and three organizing practices—enchantment, emplacement and enactment. The focus is placed on one of the main Cuban commemorational spaces: the Civic Square or Square of the Revolution of Havana.

The transition towards a cognitive and post-industrial economy has led to the emergence of new strategies of capture of the immanent productive capacities of the social forces. Heritage entities are subject to, and also participate in, processes by which common creativity and knowledge are being harnessed by novel forms of rent and control. The objective of this paper was to show that conceiving heritage as a common situated in specific contexts rather than as a universal essence can open up novel epistemological spheres of communication between different knowledge practices. Also, it can help bridge some ontological gaps among the various stakeholders in the arena of heritage, such as academics, managers, architects, local communities and market forces. This entails considering heritage as an emergent material and immaterial construction process involving many different agents. Currently, these processes tend towards the privatization of common values and the shattering of local communities. Normally, this situation entails a fundamental alienation between objects and subjects, and the reification of heritage. This paper suggests that considering heritage as a common could provide a different perspective to tackle this crucial problem. Accordingly, scholars should not only be bound to a critical discursive stance, but should also commit to 'ontological politics' that would situate them as mediators between the global hierarchies of value generated by heritage and the common productive potential of local communities. ; Peer reviewed

La aplicación de la filosofía de Gilles Deleuze en el ámbito arqueológico permite superar la dicotomía entre procesualismo y posprocesualismo, abriendo la puerta a un pensamiento diferente. Su teoría facilita la recepción de las ideas de las diferentes teorías de la complejidad, gracias a su carácter realista y a la priorización de la ontología sobre la epistemología. Este movimiento nos permite superar el giro simétrico y las distintas oposiciones binarias que subyacen al pensamiento arqueológico, como estructura-proceso, sujeto-objeto, verdad-valor o identidad-diferencia. A la vez, intentamos replantear algunas esferas de la disciplina arqueológica a través de una crítica de su conformación interna y externa, con lo que intentamos abrir el espectro de interpretaciones arqueológicas posibles. Abstract The paper suggests that the politically informed complex philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can enable archaeologists to overcome the dichotomy between processualism and postprocessualism, opening the door to different kinds of archaeological thinking. His philosophy facilitates the reception and translation into the social sciences of the ideas coming from complexity theory, thanks to his realist stance and his prioritization of ontological over epistemological concerns. This move allows us to overcome the 'symmetric turn' and the different dichotomies underlying current archaeological thought, such as structure-process, subject-object, identity-difference, truth-value, or self-other. Finally, the paper rethinks some areas of archaeological theory through a critique of the internal and external conformation of the discipline, aiming at opening the spectrum of available interpretative frameworks. ; Peer reviewed

La aplicación de la filosofía de Gilles Deleuze en el ámbito arqueológico permite superar la dicotomía entre procesualismo y posprocesualismo, abriendo la puerta a un pensamiento diferente. Su teoría facilita la recepción de las ideas de las diferentes teorías de la complejidad, gracias a su carácter realista y a la priorización de la ontología sobre la epistemología. Este movimiento nos permite superar el giro simétrico y las distintas oposiciones binarias que subyacen al pensamiento arqueológico, como estructura-proceso, sujeto-objeto, verdad-valor o identidad-diferencia. A la vez, intentamos replantear algunas esferas de la disciplina arqueológica a través de una crítica de su conformación interna y externa, con lo que intentamos abrir el espectro de interpretaciones arqueológicas posibles. ; The paper suggests that the politically informed complex philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can enable archaeologists to overcome the dichotomy between processualism and postprocessualism, opening the door to different kinds of archaeological thinking. His philosophy facilitates the reception and translation into the social sciences of the ideas coming from complexity theory, thanks to his realist stance and his prioritization of ontological over epistemological concerns. This move allows us to overcome the 'symmetric turn' and the different dichotomies underlying current archaeological thought, such as structure-process, subject-object, identity-difference, truth-value, or self-other. Finally, the paper rethinks some areas of archaeological theory through a critique of the internal and external conformation of the discipline, aiming at opening the spectrum of available interpretative frameworks.

This book shows that understanding Cuba's past and heritage is fundamental to shed light upon its future trajectories. It examines the role that cultural heritage played in the construction of a sense of national identity in post-colonial Cuba, from the Cuban independence from Spain in 1898 up until Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014. The book illustrates how political and ideological shifts have influenced ideas about heritage and how, in turn, heritage has been utilized by different social actors and classes in the reproduction of their status, the spread of new ideologies, and the consolidation of political regimes

The development of the 'State of Autonomies' following the restoration of democracy in Spain has boosted the proliferation of past narratives seeking to legitimise the new administrative structures and standardise their identity formations. This overlaps with a growing public interest in the past and its scenisation in the public sphere through historical recreation. The study analyses three historical recreations in the north-west of Spain and their link with building narratives of identity alteriality at socio-political level. It also looks at exchanges and mediations between academic knowledge and its reception by the public, demonstrating how certain socio-political issues are reflected in seemingly neutral events. ; Peer reviewed ; The development of the 'State of Autonomies' following the restoration of democracy in Spain has boosted the proliferation of past narratives seeking to legitimise the new administrative structures and standardise their identity formations. This overlaps with a growing public interest in the past and its scenisation in the public sphere through historical recreation. The study analyses three historical recreations in the north-west of Spain and their link with building narratives of identity alteriality at socio-political level. It also looks at exchanges and mediations between academic knowledge and its reception by the public, demonstrating how certain socio-political issues are reflected in seemingly neutral events. ; El desarrollo del «Estado de las Autonomías» tras el restablecimiento de la democracia en España ha potenciado la proliferación de narrativas sobre el pasado que buscan legitimar las nuevas estructuras administrativas y homogeneizar sus formaciones identitarias. Esto se solapa con un creciente interés de la ciudadanía por el pasado y su escenificación en la esfera pública a través de recreaciones históricas. El estudio analiza tres recreaciones históricas en el noroeste español y su vinculación con discursos constructores de alteridad identitaria a nivel ...

Peer Reviewed ; This research was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, through the project ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation for methodological proposal and critical review (HAR 2014-54869-R).